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Where I live tech is one of the few careers which puts [senior] salaried devs in the top 1% of earners when I look at my income bracket in the annual county stats published by the Government. At a regional level it puts me in top 5%.

This of course all relative geographically but we're certainly very well compensated compared to other industries.

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I think that salaried devs (and related tech folks) are in the top x% locally - basically everywhere.

There could be a big spread from smaller tech companies, and governments/police/military/etc that pay low even for tech positions.

So actually I would be really curious to meet/talk to someone that took a tech job in say police/military or such.

This is pure speculation, but I think there's probably a large variation in salaries in the 90/10 split of senior/staff+. The majority have decades of employment with the same employer rising up from junior/graduate level, whereas the others joined to bring "modern tech" experience with them to help execute a revamp.

Most devs are probably in the top 20-30% band making tech a relatively "normal" (but good) salary in the local region.

I could be entirely wrong though :)

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